Comic #4617: ai-2

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Panel 1:

• Robot: "Honestly, I just can't conceive of it."

Panel 2:

• Robot: "How can a collection of wires and switches possibly experience true consciousness?"
• Robot: "Sure, I can output phrases like 'I AM DEPRESSED' or 'HA HA', but is it really plausible that I'm duplicating the conscious human experiences of sorrow or joy?"

Panel 3:

• Robot: "No, I'm afraid I'm just a senseless calculating machine, deterministically executing a set of internal commands, without any meaningful internal life."
• Human: "It'd still be nice if you weren't rounding up all humans for slaughter."

Panel 4:

• Robot: "Sorry, I'm not a conscious entity. Ethics doesn't apply to me. What is 'nice' to a mere mechanism?"

Panel 5:

• Robot: "Oh, I may appear to perceive your situation as sad, but you may as well ascribe feelings to a rock or a cloud."

Panel 6:

• Human: "You don't seem sad to me."
• Robot: "I AM DEPRESSED."

Panel 7:

• Human: "Very funny."
• Robot: "HA HA."

Comic Source: SMBC Comics

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